Quotes about Achievement

The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a president, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.